Erik Weihenmayer Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.
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Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.
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Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
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I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing.
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I think it's important to say typing in the computer is like the last, last phase of my writing process. That's kind of the fun part. Well, it's all somewhat fun, I suppose. But usually what happens is I think about a movie for at least a year - maybe a couple more - and I don't put anything down.
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Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.
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I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
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A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.
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When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
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You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
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Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.
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True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.
